Between Valentine's, Prince's 'Hit & Run tour', The Winter Olympics, The BAFTAs, The BRITs and various other stuff, what February lacked in days, it sure made up for in terms of action.

Feb always has a bumper crop of big names returning, and this year didn't disappoint with new records hitting shelves and the digital databases of online music emporiums by Beck, Wild Beasts and St Vincent, not to mention Katy B who was everywhere in the British press this month, charming the pants off of journalists by doing little more than being a sweet, polite and honest human being, who happens to make music which is rather good (her LP got a very respectable 7/10 review from Marc Burrows, here).

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